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FergusArgyll

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About FergusArgyll

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    Comment #49190207

    Would be nice if we can take the bat's sonar encoder, train a projector and fuse it into our NN

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    Comment #49159714

    Yeah, so it's a spectrum. In general if you want to feel the power of the latest and greatest, you should just not look at the output, give it full access (not on your computer - a…

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    Comment #49151926

    > If we represent the operation of the Random Number Generator (RNG) as a time-series graph, the system can be applied to decrypt the bitcoin seed-phrase. Big if true

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    Comment #49150271

    If you can't find a difference between Haiku & Opus, something's going wrong

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    Comment #49124943

    Everyone hates regulations until they realize every regulation actually does something. Everyone hates spending until they realize the money goes towards something. None of this wi…

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    Comment #49117659

    Subliminal Learning: language models transmit behavioral traits via hidden signals in data https://arxiv.org/html/2507.14805v1 "In our main experiments, a “teacher” model with some…

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    Comment #49084701

    I had to butcher the title due to length

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    Comment #49078893

    **reflects** the cost... Not the **literal** cost

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    Comment #49078471

    Whatever, doesn't matter. The point is a model should be able to exist and be used even if it goes against whoever got 270 electoral college votes

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    Comment #49075610

    > In our experience, C has proven to be a pleasant, expressive and versatile language for a wide variety of programs. It is easy to learn, and it wears well as one's experience wit…

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    Comment #49074236

    It looks to me very similar to pi - Suleyman's last venture

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    Comment #49074212

    > “We have research that is worthy of scaling up, and having access to a big NVIDIA computer will let us do so,” said Ilya Sutskever, cofounder and CEO of SSI.

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    Comment #49041717

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesop's_Fables#Select_fables Enjoy

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    Comment #49037483

    I don't get this attitude. The seats are meant to recline, as soon as takeoff is finished I recline. If you want more space, you should too.

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    Comment #48998080

    > and *successfully* found ways to gain access to secret information that it could use to cheat the evaluation. Emphasis mine

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    Comment #48838107

    I know you didn't mean this but have you ever seen Meta's model which plays (the game) Diplomacy? really cool https://ai.meta.com/research/cicero/

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    Comment #48830879

    Star player traded to serious contender

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    Comment #48807254

    I'm sure, I was just trying to help with > I can't even figure it out as a thought exercise.

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    Comment #48806469

    I think some places have the government give every party equal (by what measure? I don't remember. Past votes maybe?) money for campaigning and no donations are allowed.

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    Comment #48804368

    Humans get jealous, it's normal. The best you can do is just scroll past it and resolve not to be that kind of person yourself

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    Comment #48802059

    Hey! I'm an on-again-off-again Anthropic hater and I may be guilty of uninformed hot takes but I'm not paid for by OpenAI[0] People have different opinions than you, it happens.. […

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    Comment #48796810

    Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife